Shirt with removable bosom



A. HOLSTE.

. SHIRT WITH REMOVABLE BOSOM.

APPLICATION flLED AUG. 16. 1913.

1 399 255 e Patented Dec. 6, 1921.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST HOLST'E, OE BIELEFELD, GERMANY.

SHIRT 1TH REMOVABLE BOSOM.

Application filed August 16, 1913.

Specification of Letters Patent.

(GRANTED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE ACT OF MARCH 3, 1921, 41 STAT. L, 1313.)

T 0 all 10h am it may concern Be it known that I, AUoUsr I-lonsrn, a subject of the King of Prussia German Emperor, residing at Bielefeld, in the li'ngdoin of Prussia, German Empire, have invented certain new and useful improvements in a Shirt with Removable Boson), of which the following is a specification.

Shirts with breast openings for a detachable bosom which opening gradually merges into the opening r the neck present the inconvenience that the skin of the neck is easily scratched by the sharp edges and corners of the bosom, owing to the fact that the front part of the neck band is suppressed. This invention has for its purpose to obviate this inconvenience by making the ends of the neck band project over the edge of the breast opening.

The invention has further for its purpose to improve the lit o1 the d tachable bosom by means of tabs arranged at either side of the neck opening and forming extensions of the front edges of the neck band.

in the accomparving drawings the invention is shown by way of example.

Figure l is a front elevation ot the im proved shirt.

l ig. 2 a perspective view showing part ol the om in position for being inserted.

'lhe 'Jt (a has a breast opening 5 for i. e

bosom 1e lges of the breast opening the bosom cover the ct 01''- men the same is inserted. o neck band (Z is arranged at the rear part of the neck 0 veiling e and open at the front part so that the breast opening merges into the neck opening. On the inner surface of the shirt, near the front ends of the neck band cl tabs 2. are arranged at the right and left of the breast opening which form pockets designed to receive the upper edges z' of the bosom, said corners of the bosom being retained between the parts Z: of the shirt and overlying the tabs h. T he tabs it are sewn to the shirt either along the inner edge Z and along the outer edge m (Fig. 2) in which case they form a pocket open at the bottom end only, or they are sewn only along the edge Z in which case they form a pocket open at the inner and at the outer ends. The edge of the part A: of the shirt stands slightly back from the inner edge 0 of the corresponding tab it so that the opening of the pocket into which the edge or the bosom is to be inserted is rather large.

The tabs it serve for -maintaining the bosom in proper position and for protecting the skin against injury by the sharp edges of the bosom.

I claim A shirt comprising a body provided with an open opening n its front and having a neck band extencfing inwardly beyond the edges of said opening, relatively small substantially rectangular interior flaps arranged at opposite sides or" the front opening and fitted to the under side or the body and stitched at the neck band and at the outer edges, the inner portions of the flaps being extended into said opening and conn -zct d to the inwardly projecting ends of the neck band the lower edges of the flaps being unconnected with the shirt, said flaps cooperating with the shirt front to form relatively small pockets the upper front portions of the shirt and a removable bosom provided with a neck band and having its upper corners adjacent the neck and removably fitted in the pockets which have the outer stitched edges of the flaps arranged substantially contiguous to the removable bosom.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

AUGUST HOLSTE.

l Vitnesses HANS VVITMER, ARTHUR J. BUNDY. 

